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Chicago examiner vol x no 46 a m tuesday Chicago february 13 1912.-^-18 pages tuesday reiutertd in pripf onf pfnt ammst ** carfljf u s pat.ot office rrv_iv wi-me vj__r i m c , pt , f _â€ž_ president Taft goes bodily goes to the reactionaries attacks progressive policies and squarely places himself ki camp of standpatters brands leaders neurotics makes bold bid for trust support comes out against things progressives of his party are fighting assails initiative and referen dum and denounces recall of judges as revolutionary rule of unbridled masses hew tork feb 12.â€”president Taft waking at the annual lincoln dinner of t_e republican club ln the waldorf-as toria to-night renewed his attack upon the progressive faction of the repub lican party he referred to the leaders of the progressives as emotionalists or neu lÂ»tics and characterized them as ex tremists who would hurry us into a con dition which would find no parallel except ib the french revolution or the bubbling anarchy that once characterized the south american republics the president then entered inoo a vig orous defense of his own administration and included all of the republican admin istrations since president lincoln he ritirised the democratic majority in the bouse for recommending reductions in the army and for refusing appropriations for two additional battleships far the first time in many years the tone of the dinner was defense otto rinnan president of the club who pre sided sounded the first defensive note of ' the evening when he referred to the at tacks upon president lincoln before his 'â– teeond nomination and then called for a ' taait for â€¢ honest bill Taft when president bannard proposed his toest to honest kill Taft there were scattered cheers but the majority of the j â€¢ ndience drank the toaÂ«t in silence presi dent Taft then read bis speech the president aid in part there are those who look upon the present situation as ooe full ot evil and f extra sub-postoffice robbed of 175 by two bandits uncle sam now in effort to rid Chicago of reign of brigandage two armed bandits late last night held up and robbed the postoffice substation in â€¢ the drug store of mauletta & erritella 960 west harrison street and from now on the secret service of the united states will join hands with the police ln an effort to rid Chicago of the brigandage which has terrorized the city for many months though they obtained only 175 from the safe mostly received from the sale of stamps and postcards the fact remains that they have robbed a postoffice and have come under the ban of uncle sam m a serritella was alone in the drug store just before midnight when two men entered one asked to be shown a foun tain pen as serritella reached into a showcase he was told to throw up his hands he looked up into the muzzles of two revolvers with his hands above his , head he was backed into a rear room in which the safe stands while one robber guarded him the other went into the store and rifled the cash register returning to the rear room they ordered serritella to open the safe there is nothing in it he pleaded and i do not know the combination tou lie said one of the bandits as be pressed the muzzle of his revolver against serritella's temple we know who you are and we know that the postoffice money is in that safe open it and he drew the hammer of his revolver at half-cock trembling with fear serritella opened the safe and as the bandits were rifling it a customer entered the store one bandit seized serritella by the throat and men aced him with his revolver while the other went into the store and spoke to the cus tomer what do you want he asked i want to see the druggist was the reply he is putting up an important prescrip tion said the bandit calmly sit down and wait a few minute and he will come out returning to tlie rear room he com pleted the job of rifling the safe then as they started out oue said keep quiet or we will fill you foil of lead do you understand both stuck their revolvers against the : frightened druggist's body and then start ed out oue remarked calmly to the cus tomer that tb_t druggist would be out in a ! minute and out they walked j just as they were passing through the doorway serritella who had recovered rhis nerve hurled an inkstand after them it crashed through the window and the i robbers . ran disappearing before serritella i could summon aid the best month of the year for general buying is february by j r hamilton the woman never lived who had all the money she really eeded and most women have to make every dollar go around twice and stretch it till it looks like a rubber band this applies to rich and poor alike the only difference is that the rich woman deals in yellow-backs and the poor woman in greenbacks but it has to go just as far in either case that is why february above ali months in the year shoull e the woman's shop-ping month for everything she needs for every merchant is confronted by the two sharp horns at a dilemma and neither one of them is very comfortable if ic keeps his old stocks he won't have new stocks when the new season comes if lie sails his old stocks he's got to sell them at the lowest price if men knew as much about shopping as women february would be the biggest month in the year for clearance sales apply to every kind of merchandise that is made and mer chants are learning more and more that it is cheaper to clear their stocks at any pri-ce than to carry them over if you want a rug for your home now is the time to buy t if you want a desk for your office now is the time to buy it if rou want shoes underwear furniture clothes or clothespins aw above all times is the time to buy this paper to-day should be more interesting than any book or magazine you have ever read for right within these pages you are reading now is the advertising news of the big events that are going on the shrewd merchant is here offering you the best he has at the lowest price he can afford to take there is no advertisement in this paper too small for you to seek the little tore may have something mighty big to talk about and there k no advertisement too large for you to study carefully for the bject of the big advertiser is to tell as much as he can of each trent in thc smallest space and all these people are asking ffklt attention now * here is your chance to make every dollar you spend go i w\a as far turn to those advertising pages now and see how many of the things you need so much are underpriced to-day fights woman 1,000 feet up in airship aviator beatty struggles to keep mrs dunlap from leaping to earth ' engines fail to act danger causes hysterics as i aeroplane glides to the ground . 3 xew tork feb 12.-struggling with a t hysterical woman 1,000 feet above the s earth and with his engine out of order be cause the gasoline had frozen in the car _ bureter george w beatty the aviator â€¢ brought his aeroplane and passenger mrs 3 william a dunlap safely to the ground i to-day after perhaps the most eiclting trip of his career 'â€¢ mrs dunlap had been anxious for a long 1 time to make a flight and beatty agreea to take her up this afternoon they had been in the air ten minutes and were at . an elevation of 1,000 feet when beatty noticed that his engine was missing | as he started on a long glide for the field mrs dnnlap discovered that some ( thing was wrong and began to scream at the top of her voice and was with diffi j culty restrained in her seat by alternately watching bis passenger and steering gear â– and holding mrs dunlap in her seat beatty finally made a safe landing , mrs dunlap stated after recovering . from her hysteria that neither gold nor ! precious stones would ever tempt her to again leave the earth iu a flying machine rockefellers don't speak frank testifies he hasn't addressed john d in twelve years cleveland 0 feb 12 â€” frank rockefeller brother of john d testified iu municipal court monday that he had not spoken to the oil king tor twelve years besides frank insists his name should be pronounced rock-e-feller with accent on the e to distinguish it from his brother's name the statement was made by frank rockefeller when he was in court as the defendant in a suit brought by his chauf feur samuel fried for 63 rockefeller j was testifying that twenty auto owners in his family paid their chauffeurs only 60 a month how much does you brother john d pay asked frled's attorney we have not spoken for twelve years fried was given a decision for 44.29 it's cltie corbett now 285-pound smiley rechristened thus in loop restaurant alter theater diters in , ogelsang < res taurant were interested witnesses last night to a christening the subject s sur name was corbett and for some thirtv years he had worn as a handle to it the musical appellation smiley the ehirst eniug was a surprise affair and the l_sr pounds of corbett choked gurgled and gasped in embarrassment when the party at his tabie arose and with elevated glasses right out there in public decreed solemnly tbat henceforth and forever he should be known as cutie " jorbett among those present besides cutie were john vogelsang and murray keller Chicago air woman falls mrs julia clarke's plane wrecked in twenty-^foot drop san diego cal feb l^.-mrs julia clarke of Chicago a student at the aero plane school here was painfully injured to-day by the falling of her machine for j tuuately the aeroplane was only twenty feet from the ground when the accident i occured or mrs clarke might have lost her lire she was ciretiug the field when ! a gust of wind suddenly upset the air i craft mrs clarke fell dear of the ma chine this aeroplane was wrecked mrs clarke says that to-day's accident will not deter her from continuing her lessons â€” i dawes flies in hydroplane Chicago banker tikes trip with bookins t palm beach palm beach fla feb 12 charles g dawes banker of ohicago now num bers himself among those who have gone aloft in a plane and returned to earth bafely with walter brookins at the helm mr dawes flew across l-ake worth this morntug in a burgess-wright hydroplane for some time mr dawes has been inter ested in aviation and took udvantage of this opportunity to fly under what he termed safe and sane conditions british embassy stoned new yorker hurls co crete through , window and waits for police , washington feb 12 after hurling a large piece of concrete through one of the front windows of the british embassy to-day a man giving his uame as frank fitzpatriek and hrs home as xew york waited on a corner opposite the embassy building for the arrival of two policemen who placed him under arrest the mans act caused great excitement madame nordica is stricken diva is victim of acute neuritis soprano may not sing again madame lillian nordica banker seligman ill kills himself j victim of incurable disease is successful in third attempt on life new york feb 12.-estranged from his family and a victim of an incurable illness washington seligman son of james seligman the well-known banker committed suicide same time early this morning in his apartment at the hotel gerar.d the dead man left no letter to any member of his family but assigned the cause of his act in a short note scribbled on an envelope and addressed to no one in particular it rend i am tired of being sick all my life seligman bad been dead about ten hours when the room was broken into by hotel employes when they failed to get any re spouse to knocks or telephone calls the appearance of the apartment mutely told of the suffering the dead man had endured for the past ten years on every shelf in the room and in every drawere were medicine bottles and powders some were prescriptions from local physicians and many came from abroad according to his family seligman who was fifty-eight years old had not been active in bauking circles for a number of years he had a considerable fortune of his own and speculated successfully in stocks this was the third attempt of seligman upon his life the first was in 1887 in a hotel in st augustine yla and the sec ond was in 1!*03 at the old hotel ross more ln this city - â– mme gadski rushed to boston in special train to take singer's place boston ffb 12.â€”stricken with acute neuritis and racked with pain imme lil lian n'ordica lies in ber hotel to-night in a serious condition this evening lime nor dica was to have appeared as isolde in the opening performance of a great wag nerian jubilee arranged by dr hussell of the boston opera house last night mme cs'ordiea attended a re hearsal though even then she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown she went through the evening's work two nurses who bad accompanied her from new york were on the stage with ber she was supported to her carriage where she collapsed on her arrival at the hotel a doctor was summoned she suffered intense-pain throughout the night as morning wore on she grew worse finally at 10 o'clock she gave up hope and asked that mr russell be told she was then unable to move her physicians to-night would not ad mit finding symptoms of a paralytic or ap oplectic stroke and while they are non committal as to the real i-ause of the ill ness lt was generally given out that the famous singer was suffering from neuritis which had affected both her arms the sudden attack was so serious that mme gadski was summoned by telegraph to xew tork and appeared in the role of isolde at the opera to-night although she had sprained her ankle during a per formance at the metropolitan opera house last week she came on a special train maid found dead by gas louise quan a maid employed in the home of h j wallingford 1315 davis street evanston was found dead in a gas-filled storeroom on the third floor of the house at 10 o'clock last night she is believed to have committed suicide an gusta quan a sister found her body hawley fortune lost 40,000,000 dropped in wall st in two years by boersianer financier branched out from rail roading to plunge in market on cot ton and other commodities total wealth not more than 5,000,000 became money mad says member of stock syndicate lost control of katy which passed to syndicate led by erb and bache chief figures in sale of wisconsin central to the canadian pacific if edwin hawley's legacy totals 5,000,000 his heirs will be ort nate th amount may he not m ore than 3,000,000 this is the star tling information current in the knowing circles of finance the $*->-- 000,000 popularly supposed to have been left by hawley had been col rect had he died two years ago to-day the vast fortune is nearly all it the retrospect between the late months of 1909 and the latter part of 1911 man things happened to hawley all of them disastrous these casualties wer of a secret nature save to the few who acted as the salvage corps wm took over at sacrificial prices hawley's interest in most of the corpo m rations with which his name was identified amassed immense wealth after amassing immense wealth by reconstructing railways which his expert eye showed had a great future by ln short legitimate ir promotive methods for which his long experience as a practical railroa man peculiarly qualified him hawley suddenly became a speculator â€” > reckless speculator not only in highly speculative stocks but in cottoa and other commodities between s-_0.c00,000 and 42,000,000 were lost in suck speculation so it was stated yesterday by a member of a syndicate that took over the control of a road from hawley it appears that hawley had bought heavily on margin of tjnioa pacific new york central ot paul united states steel common and other active issues at high prices at nearly the highest quotations at which these stocks had ruled he had also been the principal in a cot ton pool that lost a lot of money he became money mad he became money mad was the expression used by the syndicate member referred to the great fortune acquired by hard work and ex traordinary skill had aaemingly deprived him of balance at a critical time ln the life of supei'active men e specially of men in high finance it has been noted by psychologists that the grave mistakes of great men mistakes social financial political martial â€” occur in the decam between their fifty-fifth and sixty fifth year strange social alliance matrimonial or otherwise swift loss of fortune and scandalous bank ruptcies inconceivable political and military blunders are made in th majority of instances ln the critical period indicated financially con sidered the names stensland walsh morse leap to memory as the lat est instances hawley succumbed in the psychological crisis he wished to dupli cate the power and money possession of el h harriman but he fought for these on the exchanges instead of continuing in the field where ha had become a master the transportation field unconsciously he became a notable receptacle for the nearly two years liquidation that had beei in process in wall street he had tubbornly believed the turn for t\\a better in wall street affairs was at hand he averaged down that is as the market descended he increased his margined lines parted with his securities to maintain this position he parted from time to time with his se curities stocks and bonds of the corporation in which he was the head officer eventually his margined deals were perforce closed out the result is that the once opulent hawley estate now consists of minority equities in companies which it was generally supposed at his death w<Â»ra still under his control a syndicate of which newman erb and jules s bache are the main members has the upper hand in the missouri kansas & texas railway erb is president of the road and as bache is now a considerable factor in the line it is not impossible that a transfer to one of the numerous bid ders may be made bache and erb secured control of the wisconsin central three yeart ago and sold it to the canadian pacific at a very substantial profit to themselves and other stockholders james j hill owns a block of katy which he had picked up gradually with the view of linking it to the bur lington system but the dutch who at that time were in control re fused to sell a couple of years later hawley succeeded where hill had failed a trip to amsterdam with ready money brought hawley the road without much pipe smoking and gin drinking the hill people may now have another chance the chesapeake & ohio is thought to be in the hands of the stand ard oil group of capitalists frank a vanderlip is a director who or what kartel has the majority in the system made up of the minneapolis & st louis the lowa central the alton and the st louis & southwt-rtv ern ia not known , _, ________-_-Â«_ continued on 2d page 2d column â€”Â«_____/ Chicago and vicinity unset t7~bfimm^''msl tled weather tuesday and wednes â– ' mm^mm\rm i day ' with somewhat higher tempera h*s1 wsv^tifs ture wednesday moderate northeast e^^5<iffi ff erly winds tuesday becoming varia s 7j wr ** ble wednesday 7j range of temperature according to government report ending 7 p m : cjf^f ulgh 34 3 i.ow : u t average 19 1 brown's bronchia troches ' tst cousin salt and cgnrenlcnt â€” adn '] mmp t 9*jk m l^m*^m a

Chicago examiner vol x no 46 a m tuesday Chicago february 13 1912.-^-18 pages tuesday reiutertd in pripf onf pfnt ammst ** carfljf u s pat.ot office rrv_iv wi-me vj__r i m c , pt , f _â€ž_ president Taft goes bodily goes to the reactionaries attacks progressive policies and squarely places himself ki camp of standpatters brands leaders neurotics makes bold bid for trust support comes out against things progressives of his party are fighting assails initiative and referen dum and denounces recall of judges as revolutionary rule of unbridled masses hew tork feb 12.â€”president Taft waking at the annual lincoln dinner of t_e republican club ln the waldorf-as toria to-night renewed his attack upon the progressive faction of the repub lican party he referred to the leaders of the progressives as emotionalists or neu lÂ»tics and characterized them as ex tremists who would hurry us into a con dition which would find no parallel except ib the french revolution or the bubbling anarchy that once characterized the south american republics the president then entered inoo a vig orous defense of his own administration and included all of the republican admin istrations since president lincoln he ritirised the democratic majority in the bouse for recommending reductions in the army and for refusing appropriations for two additional battleships far the first time in many years the tone of the dinner was defense otto rinnan president of the club who pre sided sounded the first defensive note of ' the evening when he referred to the at tacks upon president lincoln before his 'â– teeond nomination and then called for a ' taait for â€¢ honest bill Taft when president bannard proposed his toest to honest kill Taft there were scattered cheers but the majority of the j â€¢ ndience drank the toaÂ«t in silence presi dent Taft then read bis speech the president aid in part there are those who look upon the present situation as ooe full ot evil and f extra sub-postoffice robbed of 175 by two bandits uncle sam now in effort to rid Chicago of reign of brigandage two armed bandits late last night held up and robbed the postoffice substation in â€¢ the drug store of mauletta & erritella 960 west harrison street and from now on the secret service of the united states will join hands with the police ln an effort to rid Chicago of the brigandage which has terrorized the city for many months though they obtained only 175 from the safe mostly received from the sale of stamps and postcards the fact remains that they have robbed a postoffice and have come under the ban of uncle sam m a serritella was alone in the drug store just before midnight when two men entered one asked to be shown a foun tain pen as serritella reached into a showcase he was told to throw up his hands he looked up into the muzzles of two revolvers with his hands above his , head he was backed into a rear room in which the safe stands while one robber guarded him the other went into the store and rifled the cash register returning to the rear room they ordered serritella to open the safe there is nothing in it he pleaded and i do not know the combination tou lie said one of the bandits as be pressed the muzzle of his revolver against serritella's temple we know who you are and we know that the postoffice money is in that safe open it and he drew the hammer of his revolver at half-cock trembling with fear serritella opened the safe and as the bandits were rifling it a customer entered the store one bandit seized serritella by the throat and men aced him with his revolver while the other went into the store and spoke to the cus tomer what do you want he asked i want to see the druggist was the reply he is putting up an important prescrip tion said the bandit calmly sit down and wait a few minute and he will come out returning to tlie rear room he com pleted the job of rifling the safe then as they started out oue said keep quiet or we will fill you foil of lead do you understand both stuck their revolvers against the : frightened druggist's body and then start ed out oue remarked calmly to the cus tomer that tb_t druggist would be out in a ! minute and out they walked j just as they were passing through the doorway serritella who had recovered rhis nerve hurled an inkstand after them it crashed through the window and the i robbers . ran disappearing before serritella i could summon aid the best month of the year for general buying is february by j r hamilton the woman never lived who had all the money she really eeded and most women have to make every dollar go around twice and stretch it till it looks like a rubber band this applies to rich and poor alike the only difference is that the rich woman deals in yellow-backs and the poor woman in greenbacks but it has to go just as far in either case that is why february above ali months in the year shoull e the woman's shop-ping month for everything she needs for every merchant is confronted by the two sharp horns at a dilemma and neither one of them is very comfortable if ic keeps his old stocks he won't have new stocks when the new season comes if lie sails his old stocks he's got to sell them at the lowest price if men knew as much about shopping as women february would be the biggest month in the year for clearance sales apply to every kind of merchandise that is made and mer chants are learning more and more that it is cheaper to clear their stocks at any pri-ce than to carry them over if you want a rug for your home now is the time to buy t if you want a desk for your office now is the time to buy it if rou want shoes underwear furniture clothes or clothespins aw above all times is the time to buy this paper to-day should be more interesting than any book or magazine you have ever read for right within these pages you are reading now is the advertising news of the big events that are going on the shrewd merchant is here offering you the best he has at the lowest price he can afford to take there is no advertisement in this paper too small for you to seek the little tore may have something mighty big to talk about and there k no advertisement too large for you to study carefully for the bject of the big advertiser is to tell as much as he can of each trent in thc smallest space and all these people are asking ffklt attention now * here is your chance to make every dollar you spend go i w\a as far turn to those advertising pages now and see how many of the things you need so much are underpriced to-day fights woman 1,000 feet up in airship aviator beatty struggles to keep mrs dunlap from leaping to earth ' engines fail to act danger causes hysterics as i aeroplane glides to the ground . 3 xew tork feb 12.-struggling with a t hysterical woman 1,000 feet above the s earth and with his engine out of order be cause the gasoline had frozen in the car _ bureter george w beatty the aviator â€¢ brought his aeroplane and passenger mrs 3 william a dunlap safely to the ground i to-day after perhaps the most eiclting trip of his career 'â€¢ mrs dunlap had been anxious for a long 1 time to make a flight and beatty agreea to take her up this afternoon they had been in the air ten minutes and were at . an elevation of 1,000 feet when beatty noticed that his engine was missing | as he started on a long glide for the field mrs dnnlap discovered that some ( thing was wrong and began to scream at the top of her voice and was with diffi j culty restrained in her seat by alternately watching bis passenger and steering gear â– and holding mrs dunlap in her seat beatty finally made a safe landing , mrs dunlap stated after recovering . from her hysteria that neither gold nor ! precious stones would ever tempt her to again leave the earth iu a flying machine rockefellers don't speak frank testifies he hasn't addressed john d in twelve years cleveland 0 feb 12 â€” frank rockefeller brother of john d testified iu municipal court monday that he had not spoken to the oil king tor twelve years besides frank insists his name should be pronounced rock-e-feller with accent on the e to distinguish it from his brother's name the statement was made by frank rockefeller when he was in court as the defendant in a suit brought by his chauf feur samuel fried for 63 rockefeller j was testifying that twenty auto owners in his family paid their chauffeurs only 60 a month how much does you brother john d pay asked frled's attorney we have not spoken for twelve years fried was given a decision for 44.29 it's cltie corbett now 285-pound smiley rechristened thus in loop restaurant alter theater diters in , ogelsang < res taurant were interested witnesses last night to a christening the subject s sur name was corbett and for some thirtv years he had worn as a handle to it the musical appellation smiley the ehirst eniug was a surprise affair and the l_sr pounds of corbett choked gurgled and gasped in embarrassment when the party at his tabie arose and with elevated glasses right out there in public decreed solemnly tbat henceforth and forever he should be known as cutie " jorbett among those present besides cutie were john vogelsang and murray keller Chicago air woman falls mrs julia clarke's plane wrecked in twenty-^foot drop san diego cal feb l^.-mrs julia clarke of Chicago a student at the aero plane school here was painfully injured to-day by the falling of her machine for j tuuately the aeroplane was only twenty feet from the ground when the accident i occured or mrs clarke might have lost her lire she was ciretiug the field when ! a gust of wind suddenly upset the air i craft mrs clarke fell dear of the ma chine this aeroplane was wrecked mrs clarke says that to-day's accident will not deter her from continuing her lessons â€” i dawes flies in hydroplane Chicago banker tikes trip with bookins t palm beach palm beach fla feb 12 charles g dawes banker of ohicago now num bers himself among those who have gone aloft in a plane and returned to earth bafely with walter brookins at the helm mr dawes flew across l-ake worth this morntug in a burgess-wright hydroplane for some time mr dawes has been inter ested in aviation and took udvantage of this opportunity to fly under what he termed safe and sane conditions british embassy stoned new yorker hurls co crete through , window and waits for police , washington feb 12 after hurling a large piece of concrete through one of the front windows of the british embassy to-day a man giving his uame as frank fitzpatriek and hrs home as xew york waited on a corner opposite the embassy building for the arrival of two policemen who placed him under arrest the mans act caused great excitement madame nordica is stricken diva is victim of acute neuritis soprano may not sing again madame lillian nordica banker seligman ill kills himself j victim of incurable disease is successful in third attempt on life new york feb 12.-estranged from his family and a victim of an incurable illness washington seligman son of james seligman the well-known banker committed suicide same time early this morning in his apartment at the hotel gerar.d the dead man left no letter to any member of his family but assigned the cause of his act in a short note scribbled on an envelope and addressed to no one in particular it rend i am tired of being sick all my life seligman bad been dead about ten hours when the room was broken into by hotel employes when they failed to get any re spouse to knocks or telephone calls the appearance of the apartment mutely told of the suffering the dead man had endured for the past ten years on every shelf in the room and in every drawere were medicine bottles and powders some were prescriptions from local physicians and many came from abroad according to his family seligman who was fifty-eight years old had not been active in bauking circles for a number of years he had a considerable fortune of his own and speculated successfully in stocks this was the third attempt of seligman upon his life the first was in 1887 in a hotel in st augustine yla and the sec ond was in 1!*03 at the old hotel ross more ln this city - â– mme gadski rushed to boston in special train to take singer's place boston ffb 12.â€”stricken with acute neuritis and racked with pain imme lil lian n'ordica lies in ber hotel to-night in a serious condition this evening lime nor dica was to have appeared as isolde in the opening performance of a great wag nerian jubilee arranged by dr hussell of the boston opera house last night mme cs'ordiea attended a re hearsal though even then she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown she went through the evening's work two nurses who bad accompanied her from new york were on the stage with ber she was supported to her carriage where she collapsed on her arrival at the hotel a doctor was summoned she suffered intense-pain throughout the night as morning wore on she grew worse finally at 10 o'clock she gave up hope and asked that mr russell be told she was then unable to move her physicians to-night would not ad mit finding symptoms of a paralytic or ap oplectic stroke and while they are non committal as to the real i-ause of the ill ness lt was generally given out that the famous singer was suffering from neuritis which had affected both her arms the sudden attack was so serious that mme gadski was summoned by telegraph to xew tork and appeared in the role of isolde at the opera to-night although she had sprained her ankle during a per formance at the metropolitan opera house last week she came on a special train maid found dead by gas louise quan a maid employed in the home of h j wallingford 1315 davis street evanston was found dead in a gas-filled storeroom on the third floor of the house at 10 o'clock last night she is believed to have committed suicide an gusta quan a sister found her body hawley fortune lost 40,000,000 dropped in wall st in two years by boersianer financier branched out from rail roading to plunge in market on cot ton and other commodities total wealth not more than 5,000,000 became money mad says member of stock syndicate lost control of katy which passed to syndicate led by erb and bache chief figures in sale of wisconsin central to the canadian pacific if edwin hawley's legacy totals 5,000,000 his heirs will be ort nate th amount may he not m ore than 3,000,000 this is the star tling information current in the knowing circles of finance the $*->-- 000,000 popularly supposed to have been left by hawley had been col rect had he died two years ago to-day the vast fortune is nearly all it the retrospect between the late months of 1909 and the latter part of 1911 man things happened to hawley all of them disastrous these casualties wer of a secret nature save to the few who acted as the salvage corps wm took over at sacrificial prices hawley's interest in most of the corpo m rations with which his name was identified amassed immense wealth after amassing immense wealth by reconstructing railways which his expert eye showed had a great future by ln short legitimate ir promotive methods for which his long experience as a practical railroa man peculiarly qualified him hawley suddenly became a speculator â€” > reckless speculator not only in highly speculative stocks but in cottoa and other commodities between s-_0.c00,000 and 42,000,000 were lost in suck speculation so it was stated yesterday by a member of a syndicate that took over the control of a road from hawley it appears that hawley had bought heavily on margin of tjnioa pacific new york central ot paul united states steel common and other active issues at high prices at nearly the highest quotations at which these stocks had ruled he had also been the principal in a cot ton pool that lost a lot of money he became money mad he became money mad was the expression used by the syndicate member referred to the great fortune acquired by hard work and ex traordinary skill had aaemingly deprived him of balance at a critical time ln the life of supei'active men e specially of men in high finance it has been noted by psychologists that the grave mistakes of great men mistakes social financial political martial â€” occur in the decam between their fifty-fifth and sixty fifth year strange social alliance matrimonial or otherwise swift loss of fortune and scandalous bank ruptcies inconceivable political and military blunders are made in th majority of instances ln the critical period indicated financially con sidered the names stensland walsh morse leap to memory as the lat est instances hawley succumbed in the psychological crisis he wished to dupli cate the power and money possession of el h harriman but he fought for these on the exchanges instead of continuing in the field where ha had become a master the transportation field unconsciously he became a notable receptacle for the nearly two years liquidation that had beei in process in wall street he had tubbornly believed the turn for t\\a better in wall street affairs was at hand he averaged down that is as the market descended he increased his margined lines parted with his securities to maintain this position he parted from time to time with his se curities stocks and bonds of the corporation in which he was the head officer eventually his margined deals were perforce closed out the result is that the once opulent hawley estate now consists of minority equities in companies which it was generally supposed at his death w